Chill and other written assignments

Chill

Setting sun leaves sizzling spaces
Giving warmth to tiny places;
But the sun’s warmth slowly departs
Leaving chill in all lonely hearts.

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Maintaining My Defenses

External to the edges of my existence, 12
I have no control over the consequences 12
with regard to your own life participation. 12

Infringements upon my inflamed interior 12
masticate like the cutting canines of critters 12
when they become feral from fear and famishment.12

My defenses are delusion and denial 12
because I've found continuously caring costs 12
more than my mind's methodology can manage.12


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Aging Woman in Repose

She gathers and guards her treasures – gathers/guards 8
there is little else to measure 8
a lifetime now in the past tense.8
She mutters not making much sense. Making/much 8

Yellowed letter from her husband, 8
envelope opened and reopened, *9*
a twist of lovely golden hair 8
from when he was young and fair 8.

Ragged heart shapes with childish scrawls, 8
"I love you, Mom," the message calls mom/message 8
to old memories of days gone by. *9*
Oh, how quickly the time can fly! 8

Ink penned poems in a journal, 8
paint a picture like a mural, paint/picture 8
of woman's romantic soul, *7*
composed when her mind was still whole. 8

She gathers and guards her treasures. 8
These tokens provide a measure 8
of a lifetime now in the past tense. *9*
She mutters and to God makes sense. 8